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"I want to alert other pet owners just in case there may be someone out there doing harm to animals."

Cat owners in Barwell are being urged to take extra care after a pet puss was shot in the leg.

Bobbi, a 12-year-old tortoiseshell was
hit on the shoulder with an airgun pellet. Owner, Diane Malpus, only realised she had been shot after taking her to the vets.

Mrs
Malpus, who lives with husband, Tony and five other felines in Stapleton Lane, said: “Bobbi came in a few weeks ago with what looked like a scratch on her shoulder and I assumed she had been in a fight so didn’t think much of it.

“Then sometime later I saw the scratch had turned into an abscess and burst, leaving a hole in her flesh.

“I
took her to the vets and was told it looked like she’d been shot with an airgun and the pellet had somehow worked its way out, leaving the wound.

“Well I was completely shocked. Bobbi never wanders far so she must have been targeted somewhere nearby. Luckily she has not been left with any permanent damage.

“I reported the incident to the police and want to alert other pet owners just in case there may be someone out there doing harm to animals.”

The
58-year-old is also fearful for a stray which used to come to their home for feeding but hasn’t been seen for more than two months.

“Freddie is a grey tabby tom with a very distinctive tail. It was broken at some point and so just hangs down.

“He would always come for some dinner but he hasn’t been around for ages. He may just have gone off elsewhere but when this happened to Bobbi it made me wonder if anything worse had happened.”

Mrs Malpus, who runs a leisurewear manufacturing business, said she couldn’t understand why anyone would want to harm the cats.

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